Molecular Formula: C₆H₅COONa
Sodium benzoate is widely used in food industry as a food preservative. It is used as a preservative for soy sauce, vinegar, low salt sauces, juice, jam, fruit wine, canned food, soda water, beverage syrup, tobacco and so on. The pharmaceutical industry is used to prepare sodium benzoate sedatives and other antiseptic drugs. Sodium benzoate is also used for anticorrosive paper, latex paint, shoeshine, glue and fabric. Sodium benzoate can also be used to make mordant in dyestuff industry, plasticizer in plastic industry and raw material for perfume industry. As a chemical reagent, used as a cosolvent for serum bilirubin test.
